Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards!!

[jonalvy44]

YES! This only illustrates the point that Americans are no longer tolerant of those that bash America!! This is awesome news! They can't just sneak back into our hearts, as much as they would like to.

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=123260

©JOE CAVARETTA/AP

Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards May 22, 7:05 AM EST

Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name.

Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive — you."

Maines has been in the country music doghouse since she told a London audience on March 10, before the start of the war in Iraq, that "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

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The Dixie Chicks were a late addition, performing by satellite from their hometown of Austin, Texas.

Maines sat silently as Emily Robison briefly introduced the song.

The boos erupted when Gill named the Dixie Chicks among nominees for entertainer of the year. Gill said afterward that the reaction was more subdued than at last month's Flameworthy Awards. "It was a pretty volatile crowd that time. This one wasn't so bad," he said.

It didn't seem that way to host Reba McEntire.

"It was a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over," she said after the program.

[Randy Larsen]

Really? To Me, it just meant that she was dyslexic as well as idiotic, as the proper spelling was obviously "FUKT". Which she was, as well as her music.

LOL! Now THAT'S funny! And oh so true!

[SerpentDove]

>>Therefore wasn't really surprised to see him bend over backwards to try to take the "let's get along" high road while lecturing to the unenlightened in the audience, and, essentially, while trying to make himself appear a wise and benevolent peacemaker. <<

I get the same feeling about this as I did when Brett Butler came out at the Flameworthy awards (how appropo is that?) and condescendingly drawled to us "yokels" that the Sowth iz a playyce uv siyun and hopefuwly fergiveniss."

The suspicion is this: both are willing tools of Sony (or whoever) and were sent out to try to plug the Titanic's leak.

[SerpentDove]

Thanks

SD

[sarasota]

When did you see Mutt? I thought he had a pact with her that he wouldn't attend any public functions--or so she said in an interview for VH1. Are you sure it was Mutt?
O Brother is wonderful--soundtrack and movie both.

[sarasota]

Who's Craig Livingston?

[theFIRMbss]

>So I gather you're a "glass is half empty" type?

I'm about one step
back from Marvin the android
on the Heart of Gold...

[Wolverine]

Likewise, Ms. Streisand, while staying at the MGM in Las Vegas for her final concert, demanded that all hotel workers who entered and left her guestroom suite do so backwards. No one was allowed to “see” the goddess Streisand. It’s the sort of over-the-top behavior that educated people associate with ancient and far-away potentates, but then again Streisand identified so strongly with Cleopatra that she circulated close-up publicity photographs of herself all dolled up as the Egyptian queen of the Nile. Or is that the Queen of Denial? The sojourning Queen Streisand also demanded peach-colored toilet paper “to match her skin.” Brace yourself. Barbra and Hillary are the fantacists who want to shape the future of America.

Barbra Streisand shares much with Hillary Clinton. Both women were judged to be cold and aloof by their classmates, both had cold and remote father figures, both women have an academic grasp of femininity, and both women share a paranoid fixation: neither of them wants to make eye contact with humans.

[Sloth]

So what do you say when you want a Coke?

It's context-dependent. If you are ordering a combo at Wendy's, and you say "...and a large Coke to drink," they almost certainly know you are talking about Coca-Cola. However, if you say to your spouse, "We're almost out of coke and need to get some at the store," you could be referring to Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, root beer, Slice, Dr. Pepper, peach Nehi... any soft drink.

[hispanarepublicana]

Come down some time, we'll go out for a coke, and I'll explain. I'll even pick up the tab for your coke....anything you want....Dr. Pepper, Big Red, Pepsi, etc.

[hispanarepublicana]

I wonder what I would demand for my hotel/dressing room if I were a celebrity......

hmmmmm....iced-down lonestar beer (bottles not cans)

cheetos and pork rinds with the spicy stuff on the side, so I don't get all the orange spicy stuff on fingers

those tiny little hershey bars that come in assorted bags, but with the Mr. Goodbar and Krunch ones removed.

no hotel staff that are better looking or skinnier than me

FOX News Channel is a make-or-break-deal REQUIREMENT!!!

[SerpentDove]

:-)

[The Westerner]

Exactly.

[wardaddy]

It was a dapper looking grey haired guy next to her(with her)....tanned...looked like him.

I remember thinking...long way from his Swiss Chateau.

[sarasota]

He's got wild blonde hair. I would be shocked if it turns out to be him. He's a real recluse.

[sarasota]

I never touch the stuff. I've got a problem with aspartame, etc. I'm a bottled water/cappucino
addict. Now, no lecture on caffeine, please.

[Redbob]

CMT still pushes the Chicks and their concerts - so I tune them out too.

[wardaddy]

Unless he has cut his hair short and let it go gray, I doubt it was him....plus the guy on TV did not look as tall as Mutt is. But, he did look similar in the face.

1993

[pgkdan]

There is more to that story. Grant's hubby was the one who got hurt worst.

So whatever happened to him? I used to enjoy watching him on Primetime Country. When she left him he was off the show for months and then came back but only for a few weeks.

[wardaddy]

I think I saw him last year doing some interview with his new girlfriend/wife....a bubbly blonde bikini model looking gal...they looked happy. I thought good for him.

I know he sold his estate south of Nashville near Franklin for between 5-10M